Valerie Reiss: July 2009 Archives

  In a lot of yoga circles, eating meat is akin to peeing on the sofa or hitting on a friend's boyfriend. It's just not done--at least publicly. Which is why it's so amazing that the cool yogini Sadie Nardini "came out" this week on her Huffington Post blog as a meat eater. She speaks out against "yogier than thou" NYC yoga studios that preach against meat and the people who eat it in defense of the yogic principle of ahimsa, or not-harming.

She makes a really wonderful case for not shaming people with fear, even in the name of kindness. And says she's not about hot dogs, but rather judiciously portioned, free-range, grass-fed meat eaten once in a while. I admire her chutzpah. I am sure she will get slammed, but the first responses were basically high-fives from yogis (myself included) who are tired of justifying their personal food choices and health decisions to ironically inflexible vegetarian yogis. (I say that having been a vegan for six years, vegetarian for many more, and a recent sometime meat-eater for my health).

What do you think? Is it anti-yogic to eat meat? Is it more anti-yoga to shame people for doing so?

Sadie's whole, thoughtful article is here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sadie-nardini/om-scampi-a-top-yogi-come_b_242189.html

Oh how I love yoga people with a sense of humor. YogaDawg's blog "My Itchy Third Eye" has a hilarious recent post about a photo of Sarah Palin in Runner's World magazine, in which she is practicing Tree Pose incorrectly, in a way that is actually really dangerous for the knees. Yoga Dawg proposes a PAC to help save Sarah's knees. Funny stuff for an afternoon giggle, mayhaps.

Sarah in the magazine, in Tree Pose:     

The "PAC" poster:

And, finally, the correct, non-knee-endangering Tree Pose:

[Last image via: http://www.prevention.com/images/cma/Corn_TreePose.jpg]

I was just feeling kinda kittylicious....

"When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not passing time with me rather than I with her? - Montaigne

"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this." - Anonymous

"Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later." - Mary Bly

"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want." - Joseph Wood Krutch

"A meow massages the heart." - Stuart McMillan

"If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr." - Martin Buxbaum

Check out this very cute kitty photo gallery from a Beliefnet member. Meow.